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...Administration, though, is prepared to offer some extra protection to the beleaguered American farmer. Last week President Reagan authorized the sale of Government-subsidized wheat to the Soviet Union. The Soviets have been buying little of the costly American grain, but the federal subsidies will bring the price down. Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole of Kansas, along with several Midwestern Republican Senators who are up for re-election this year, had lobbied the President to take the action...
...Midwest's surplus is so stubbornly large that even this year's severe drought in the South will fail to boost depressed farm prices. The sad result: farmers in those states will face a double bind of low prices and small harvests, which could push many of them over the financial brink. Last week's heat wave, which reached 105 degrees F in parts of the Carolinas, further scorched crops and killed more than 500,000 chickens. "This could put us completely out of business," laments Dairy Farmer Charlie Bouldin, of Chatham County, N.C., who expects less than...
...current troubles are behind the almost palpable increase in white unease. In some rural areas, particularly in the Limpopo River valley near the Zimbabwe border, white farmers have formed home guard, or "commando," units, while the army sweeps the roads for mines at least twice a day. Many farmers in the area have built high security fences or walls around their homes, and all are connected by shortwave radio. One such farmer, Johan de Villiers, wears a Beretta pistol wherever he goes on his 2,000-acre spread. Two of his four sons are now farmers, and one of them...
Opponents of the amendment also scored heavily by stressing that divorced spouses could lose their property as well as inheritance rights to their land. That struck a raw nerve in a country that is still 40% agricultural. "If there's one thing an Irish farmer loves more than his wife," said an Irish farmer, "it's his farm...
...only heard of one of them before, that Stacy Staysak or somethin'. * Someone told me she played in Farmer's Daughter. Celebrities are not unheard of here. Every year, Wilmington has an Azalea Parade, and one year they had Buddy Ebsen. He was on Beverly Hillbillies. I loved that program...